Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 633 344 797
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 10.07% 13.26% 13.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.59% 41.50% 46.50%
Number of salaries quoted 257 282 720
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,250 £28,584
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,533 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,625 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.04% -8.46%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,684 829 1,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.80% 31.95% 28.43%
Number of salaries quoted 714 621 1,464
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,738 £75,750
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.80% +8.70% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex -4 152 £41,000 -4.09% 40
Cambridgeshire +4 139 £57,550 +15.10% 36
Hertfordshire -20 113 £60,000 +9.09% 61
Suffolk +29 90 £57,000 +14.00% 18
Norfolk +2 87 £60,000 +84.43% 13
Bedfordshire +7 50 £14,000 -73.58% 18
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 53 (8.37%) SharePoint
2 33 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.26%) WordPress
5 7 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.79%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Apache
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 86 (13.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.42%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.42%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.32%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 139 (21.96%) Power Platform
2 124 (19.59%) Microsoft 365
3 112 (17.69%) Azure AI
4 88 (13.90%) AWS
5 72 (11.37%) Entra ID
6 32 (5.06%) PowerApps
7 29 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 29 (4.58%) Power Automate
8 28 (4.42%) Azure Logic Apps
9 26 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (3.95%) GCP
10 25 (3.95%) OneDrive
11 20 (3.16%) Snowflake
12 18 (2.84%) GitHub
13 17 (2.69%) SaaS
14 16 (2.53%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 13 (2.05%) IaaS
16 10 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 10 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
17 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 61 (9.64%) Firewall
2 25 (3.95%) VPN
3 21 (3.32%) DNS
4 19 (3.00%) WAN
5 17 (2.69%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.53%) DHCP
7 14 (2.21%) LAN
8 11 (1.74%) Internet
9 8 (1.26%) Wireless
10 7 (1.11%) Broadband
11 6 (0.95%) SAN
12 5 (0.79%) Network Security
12 5 (0.79%) VLAN
13 4 (0.63%) DMZ
13 4 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.63%) WLAN
14 3 (0.47%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.47%) SSL
15 1 (0.16%) L2TP
15 1 (0.16%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (20.85%) Power BI
2 92 (14.53%) Tableau
3 34 (5.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (4.27%) SQL Server
5 16 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.05%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.26%) BigQuery
7 8 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.26%) MySQL
8 7 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.95%) Looker
9 6 (0.95%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.79%) Redis
11 4 (0.63%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.47%) Big Data
13 2 (0.32%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 13 (2.05%) Git
2 9 (1.42%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.95%) JIRA
3 6 (0.95%) MLflow
4 2 (0.32%) Selenium
5 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.16%) JMeter
5 1 (0.16%) Postman
5 1 (0.16%) REST Assured
General
1 375 (59.24%) Social Skills
2 63 (9.95%) Finance
3 25 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (3.95%) Law
4 13 (2.05%) Public Sector
5 11 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (1.74%) Multimedia
6 8 (1.26%) Marketing
7 6 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (0.95%) Retail
8 5 (0.79%) Publishing
9 4 (0.63%) Banking
9 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.47%) Advertising
10 3 (0.47%) Legal
11 2 (0.32%) Police
12 1 (0.16%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 180 (28.44%) Analyst
2 173 (27.33%) Junior
3 168 (26.54%) Junior Analyst
4 85 (13.43%) Security Analyst
5 84 (13.27%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 84 (13.27%) Data Analyst
5 84 (13.27%) Junior Data Analyst
5 84 (13.27%) Junior Security Analyst
6 64 (10.11%) Developer
6 64 (10.11%) IT Support
7 60 (9.48%) Ethical Hacker
8 51 (8.06%) Senior
9 37 (5.85%) Architect
9 37 (5.85%) Network Engineer
10 36 (5.69%) IT Engineer
11 34 (5.37%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (5.37%) Support Engineer
12 29 (4.58%) Lead
13 27 (4.27%) Software Developer
14 26 (4.11%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (7.90%) CSS
2 40 (6.32%) HTML
3 32 (5.06%) .NET
4 23 (3.63%) .NET Core
5 21 (3.32%) JSON
6 19 (3.00%) HTML5 Canvas
7 18 (2.84%) REST
8 16 (2.53%) Microsoft Graph
8 16 (2.53%) SPFx
9 12 (1.90%) jQuery
9 12 (1.90%) React
10 10 (1.58%) SOAP
11 8 (1.26%) PyTorch
11 8 (1.26%) scikit-learn
11 8 (1.26%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.11%) ASP.NET
12 7 (1.11%) Kafka
13 6 (0.95%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (0.95%) LangChain
13 6 (0.95%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.48%) Cyberattack
2 31 (4.90%) Cloud Native
3 13 (2.05%) Onboarding
4 12 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.26%) Clustering
6 8 (1.26%) Low-Code
7 7 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.11%) Robotics
8 6 (0.95%) Driving Licence
8 6 (0.95%) Management Information System
8 6 (0.95%) Product Ownership
8 6 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.79%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (0.79%) PKI
9 5 (0.79%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.63%) Blog
10 4 (0.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 85 (13.43%) Windows
2 57 (9.00%) Windows Server
3 13 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (1.74%) Linux
4 11 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (1.42%) Android
6 7 (1.11%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.79%) VMS
8 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.47%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (33.49%) Cybersecurity
2 153 (24.17%) AI
3 134 (21.17%) Business Intelligence
4 125 (19.75%) Mentoring
5 66 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (9.64%) Agile
7 60 (9.48%) Ethical Hacking
8 51 (8.06%) DevOps
9 45 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (6.16%) CI/CD
11 37 (5.85%) Analytics
12 34 (5.37%) Computer Science
13 33 (5.21%) Roadmaps
14 32 (5.06%) Technical Leadership
15 31 (4.90%) Machine Learning
16 30 (4.74%) Data Modelling
17 29 (4.58%) ERP
17 29 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 29 (4.58%) ITIL
17 29 (4.58%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 163 (25.75%) SQL
2 152 (24.01%) Python
3 63 (9.95%) C#
4 43 (6.79%) JavaScript
4 43 (6.79%) PowerShell
5 24 (3.79%) PHP
6 19 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.21%) Java
8 11 (1.74%) C++
9 10 (1.58%) R
10 6 (0.95%) Bash
10 6 (0.95%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.32%) Bicep
11 2 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 306 (48.34%) Azure Certification
2 86 (13.59%) CompTIA Security+
3 85 (13.43%) CompTIA CySA+
4 60 (9.48%) CEH
5 54 (8.53%) Degree
6 41 (6.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (6.16%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (5.85%) Security Cleared
9 33 (5.21%) CCNA
10 29 (4.58%) Network+ Certification
11 24 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (3.79%) SC Cleared
12 20 (3.16%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.95%) CCNP
15 6 (0.95%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.69%) GDPR
2 16 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.90%) QA
4 9 (1.42%) GRC
4 9 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.11%) NIST
6 6 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.95%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 4 (0.63%) JSP 440
7 4 (0.63%) NCSC
7 4 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.63%) SLA
8 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 82 (12.95%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.53%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.11%) Docker
5 7 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.95%) vSphere
7 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 35 (5.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (2.37%) Terraform
3 12 (1.90%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.42%) Ansible
5 4 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.63%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.63%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.16%) Grafana
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 439 (69.35%) Microsoft
2 168 (26.54%) ForeScout
3 37 (5.85%) Cisco
4 30 (4.74%) VMware
5 17 (2.69%) Databricks
6 16 (2.53%) Adobe
7 13 (2.05%) SAP
7 13 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.90%) Fortinet
9 10 (1.58%) Epicor
9 10 (1.58%) Veeam
10 9 (1.42%) SolarWinds
11 8 (1.26%) Apple
11 8 (1.26%) Aruba
12 7 (1.11%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.11%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.95%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.95%) Dell
13 6 (0.95%) Google
13 6 (0.95%) Palo Alto